Diversity Audits
Based on our years of working with organisations to provide strategic workforce solutions, we have developed an innovative approach using our Diversity DNATM Map and Helix to measure organisational diversity performance accurately.
Poor management based on poor information can lead to high levels of staff turnover, absenteeism and grievance actions. These consequences are expensive and inefficient and the effect on workplace morale can be devastating.
A diversity audit provides a quantitative and qualitative snapshot of an organisation's workforce through a staff survey and analysis. Most Australian companies do not keep even the most basic diversity records. Even fewer analyse these records to determine the best way to develop their workplace practices.
Conducting an audit has numerous benefits. The process itself can communicate managers' commitment to employees' job satisfaction, boosting workers' confidence in management. Audits can also highlight the differences in perception between management and employees. Managers are frequently surprised to find that workers feel uninvolved in decision-making, unappreciated and cynical about the fairness and transparency of promotion decisions.
Audits can also highlight strengths in the workforce that managers were not previously aware of. These strengths and skills may help an organisation operate more efficiently or tap into new markets.
Diversity audits typically focus on three main areas:
- employee attitudes and beliefs;
- the values and culture of the organisation; and
- management practices and policies.
The extent to which these three levels work together determines the extent to which diversity is managed effectively.
For more information on how a diversity audit can help your organisation contact:
Mark Heaysman
Phone: (03) 9608 0900
Email: mark@diversityatwork.com.au